SearchCap: Google Alphabet, Sundar Pichai CEO & Graphiq Search

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web.

From Search Engine Land:

Sundar Pichai Appointed Google CEO As Google Becomes Division Of Alphabet Inc. In a totally unexpected development this afternoon, Google announced that it had formed a new holding company, Alphabet, Inc., and that Google would be a wholly owned subsidiary of that entity. In addition, Google co-founders Page and Brin will become CEO and President of the new company, respectively, turning over daily control of Google to Sundar Pichai, who […]

Graphiq Search: FindTheBest Becomes Knowledge Graph Engine The world’s most extensive “knowledge graph” may not be at Google. Vertical search site FindTheBest (FTB) has rebranded and relaunched as Graphiq, a data visualization or knowledge graph search engine. Using a huge volume of data sources, automation and human editorial oversight, the company says that it has created “the world’s deepest and most interconnected Knowledge Graph, featuring 1,000 collections, 1 […]